We all know that ESD (Electro-Static Discharge) ruins, or can seriously damage electronic circuits, cards, components and/or assemblies. However, we do not always give enough credit to the impact that corrosion has on creating failures or walking wounded electronics.
America leads the way in losses due to credit card fraud. Statistically speaking, it accounted for 47% of the $11.3 Billion in worldwide fraud in 2012.
This was an increase of 15% according to that which was reported in 2011.
American consumers remain targeted because there are more credit cards here and magnetic strip security systems are easy to bypass.
Armed with shopping bag and credit card, consumers applauded the release of the first iPod in 2001. With 5 GBs of storage and the slogan “1,000 songs in your pocket”, the iPod quickly became an overnight success. Now different versions can hold up to 160 GBs and 40,000 songs. An HD color screen replaced the orighinal black and white screen.